Name, face, body / Kenneth S. Greenberg -- The construction of The confessions of Nat Turner / David F. Almendinger, Jr.-- The event / Herbert Aptheker -- Covenant in Jerusalem / Thomas C. Parramore -- Symptoms of liberty and blackhead signposts: David Walker and Nat Turner / Vincent Harding -- A prophet in his own land: support for Nat Turner and his rebellion within Southampton's black community / Patrick H. Breen -- Reading, revelation, and rebellion: the textual communities of Gabriel, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner / James Sidbury -- Nat Turner in a hemispheric context / Douglas R. Egerton -- Nat Turner and sectional crisis / Louis P. Masur -- "What happened in this place?": In search of the female slave in the Nat Turner slave insurrection / Mary Kemp Davis -- Styron's choice: a meditation on history, literature, and moral imperatives / Charles Joyner -- Interview with William Styron -- Interview with Alvin F. Poussaint -- Epilogue: Nat Turner in Hollywood / Kenneth S. Greenberg